Invisible: prediabetes

What is the Free Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program?

If you live with prediabetes, the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program might be right for you! Here's what you need to know:

Managing Lows While Living Alone

Despite living with type 2 diabetes for nearly a decade, Kathleen Mc Ilraith had to reassess her blood sugar management when she started experiencing hypoglycemia on insulin.

Going Low on the Road with Prediabetes

Randy Ritchie regularly made 15-hour drives to see her children and grandchildren— until low blood sugars got in the way.

I Have Prediabetes, Will I Develop Type 2 Diabetes?

Living with prediabetes always begs the question: will I develop Type 2 diabetes? The answer? It depends on a number of factors. Learn them here.

Secrets to a Good Diet for Prediabetes

If you just found out you have prediabetes, from what you have been explained, there might be something that you are still not completely clear about and that is essential to keep glucose levels in r...

Prediabetes: Risk Factors and Symptoms

Prediabetes is characterized as elevated glucose levels, but not elevated enough to be diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. Without intervention and lifestyle changes, prediabetes can progress to T2D. Know...

Ask a DCES: Why Was I Diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes or Prediabetes?

Wonder why you were diagnosed with T2D or Prediabetes? Diabetes care and education specialist, Jodi Lavin-Tompkins gives you a couple of reasons why.

I’ve Got Prediabetes. Now What?

Between a feeling of relief and some concerns you find yourself trying to figure out what that means. You had heard about diabetes, but not pre-diabetes. And you wonder "So do I have diabetes or ...

What is a Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (DCES)?

A CDE functions as the diabetes expert within this group and lends the kind of support someone with T2D absolutely needs in order to function optimally and independently.